[MAILSCANNER] MS 4.45.4-1 installation help

[Denis Beauchemin]

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Dimitri Yioulos wrote:

>On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:45 pm, Julian Field wrote:
>  
>
>>Julian Field wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Scott Silva wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Alden Levy spake the following on 9/21/2005 5:33 PM:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:57:39 -0700, Scott Silva
>>>>>
>>>>><ssilva at SGVWATER.COM> wrote:
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>Alden Levy spake the following on 9/21/2005 4:26 PM:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Sorry for the duplicate messages.  I realized that I had written the
>>>>>>>messages first from my mail program, then from the web interface,
>>>>>>>and--after
>>>>>>>realizing that noone would get these messages--from the jiscmail
>>>>>>>interface.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>In any event, I still have one problem, but it still looks like it's
>>>>>>>working, namely:
>>>>>>>      incoming sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.in.pid: No such
>>>>>>>file or
>>>>>>>directory
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There was no file named sendmail.in.pid, so I copied sendmail.pid
>>>>>>>over.
>>>>>>>While the system works, when I check the status of MailScanner, I
>>>>>>>get:
>>>>>>>Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>>>>>>       MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>>>>>>       incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>>>>>>>       outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>However, I seem to have the same services running as I had this
>>>>>>>morning.  I
>>>>>>>am able to send emails to accounts on this box from outside
>>>>>>>accounts, as
>>>>>>>well as send emails from accounts on this box to accounts outside
>>>>>>>this box
>>>>>>>(and, of course, emails between accounts on this box).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Suggestions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>>Alden
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>Delete the copied pid, then stop MailScanner and run
>>>>>>touch /var/run/sendmail.in.pid
>>>>>>then restart MailScanner and see if that helps.
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>I tried that. When I check service MailScanner status, I get:
>>>>>Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>>>>        MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>>>>        incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>>>>>        outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>>>>
>>>>>And in my mail logs, I get:
>>>>>Sep 21 20:35:42 engine sendmail[27938]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>>>>>opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>>>>>Sep 21 20:35:42 engine sendmail[27938]: daemon MTA: problem creating
>>>>>SMTP socket
>>>>>Sep 21 20:35:45 engine sendmail[28052]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>>>>>opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>>>>>Sep 21 20:35:45 engine sendmail[28052]: daemon MTA: problem creating
>>>>>SMTP socket
>>>>>
>>>>>Any other suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks, again,
>>>>>Alden
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Did you stop sendmail and run chkconfig sendmail off as per the install
>>>>docs?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Can you check if you have any postfix processes running? Many RedHat
>>>systems ship using Postfix by default instead of sendmail. There is a
>>>tool somewhere to switch which MTA you are using on your RedHat setup.
>>>      
>>>
>>The tool is called system-switch-mail-nox, it's in /usr/bin so will be
>>on your $PATH already.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi, Julian.
>
>No postfix processes running.  Our MTA is sendmail.
>
>Dimitri
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Dimitri,

What's the output from: netstat -tpa|grep :smtp

Denis

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